The upcoming World Beard and Moustache Championships in Carson City, Nev., is like a comet. If you're even a hair late, you'll have to wait until 2005 and trek to Berlin to see more of the same. The entrants are divided into 17 categories, such as the famous Fu Manchu mustache, musketeer goatee and the Garibaldi full beard. The pictures here tell quite a tale.
Bonsai is the Asian art of pruning, shaping and dwarfing a tree that would normally take up many times the size of the end result. It takes years of patience, dedication and attention to fine detail to achieve the goal. Bonsai potatoes, however, make a mockery of this ritualistic practice and are perfect for the busy spiritually enlightened wannabes with whom I choose to associate. If you're too cheap to spring for the kit, just come over to my house and you can take one of the spuds lurking in my pantry.
Do you feel as if you've been had when buying a car? Don't know how to make a pizza from scratch? Then this site is for you. It's a colorful stab at just about any topic the site's owner deems worth your attention, with items submitted by visitors. It's not all fun and mirth; there is some genuinely useful information tucked away in the sarcasm. If you read the "how to catch a fish" entry, be sure not to follow the advice that involves throwing dynamite in the water.
Kids can be pretty good with money. And what better way to learn some simple mental arithmetic than applying it to making change? This site has an interactive section that asks the user to figure out how many bills and coins it would take to give the correct change on purchases ranging from easy to hard. It doesn't offer the optimum solution, however, because it was perfectly happy with me giving 402 pennies. There goes my career in retail.
Being a compulsive doodler as a kid led me to discover origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. The fascination never left and, perhaps, you'll be charmed by the images of art on this site, too. Be sure to drool over the the Scaled Dragon and the Ancient Wyrm. Eye candy for all.
